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Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo is a South African human rights and environmental justice activist, and is currently President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. He is the former Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2018-2020)and the first person from the Global South to lead Greenpeace International (2009-2015). He is an advisor for the Community Arts Network and a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. His family started the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism to build on the positive legacies left by his son and popular South African rapper Rikhado “Riky Rick” Makhado through his music and - work. Kumi's award-winning autobiography, Letters To My Mother: The Makings of a Troublemaker was released in 2022. Kumi is also the host of the podcast Power, People & Planet.